Qurʾān

Qurʾān, (
Arabic: “Recitation”) also spelled Quran and Koran , the sacred scripture of Islam and, for all Muslims, the very word of God, revealed through the agency of the archangel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad. Although most modern Muslims know it as the Holy Qurʾān, many of them still refer to it as al-Qurʾān al-karīm or al-Qurʾān al-majīd, which can best be translated as “the Noble Qurʾān” or “the Glorious Qurʾān.” The Qurʾān, which is the central theophany (divine manifestation) of Islam, is written in Arabic, which is Islam’s sacred and liturgical language. Because of Arabic’s sacred status, ... (100 of 4,431 words)